Medically reviewed by Yasmine S. Ali, MD, MSCI Atrial fibrillation can affect life expectancy due to factors that include age, underlying health conditions, race, and how this common cardiac ...

AF, or AFib, and its close medical cousin, atrial flutter, are associated with complications such as stroke, heart failure, and heart attack.While there’s an understandable focus on treating ...

For patients with heart failure and severe mitral regurgitation undergoing M-TEER, baseline atrial fibrillation is associated with worse outcomes.

An analysis of a global data set shows the burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) and atrial flutter (AFL) climbed sharply between 1990 and 2019, with women accounting for much of the increase, and ...

The survey included 101 people who self-reported cold ingestion-triggered symptomatic Afib or atrial flutter at KP Northern California emergency departments (n=39) and an additional cohort of non ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Northwell Staten Island University Hospital is among the first in the country to successfully treat persistent atrial fibrillation and typical atrial flutter using a next ...

Source Reference: Joglar JA, et al "2023 ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS guideline for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation" J Am Coll Cardiol 2023; DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2023.10.021.